I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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